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  • adverb In the manner of an animal that walks on four feet or four legs.

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Examples

  • Efi then took the trunk with both hands and placed it on the swampy ground in front of her, crossed bipedally on this self-made bridge, and walked quadrupedally towards the middle of the clearing

    Strike one more up for Evolution – First tool use shown in Wild Gorillas | Netflow Developments 2009

  • Efi then took the trunk with both hands and placed it on the swampy ground in front of her, crossed bipedally on this self-made bridge, and walked quadrupedally towards the middle of the clearing

    2009 January | Netflow Developments 2009

  • Efi then took the trunk with both hands and placed it on the swampy ground in front of her, crossed bipedally on this self-made bridge, and walked quadrupedally towards the middle of the clearing

    2009 January 17 | Netflow Developments 2009

  • Taylor trained juvenile chimpanzees to walk bipedally and quadrupedally on a treadmill.

    Going Bipedal 2007

  • Rather than moving quadrupedally, they bounce from vertical support to vertical support.

    CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007 2007

  • I'm in Virginia for a week or I'd run to the shelf for my copy, just to dig up the hilarious passage where Ornette Coleman encourages the bear to come into his own as a musical animal by playing his solos more "quadrupedally."

    Philocrites: A few jazz recommendations. 2006

  • They also move quadrupedally in the trees and they also use a suspensor manner to move around in a feeding source.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Reidt93 2010

  • Locomotion: Chimpanzees move on the ground quadrupedally and the call it the knuckle-walk.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Reidt93 2010

  • Sure, they couldn’t sprint at speeds equaling those of cursorial animals, but there is every indication that they were proficient walkers, more than capable of foraging quadrupedally on the ground or in shallow water.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • We must now, I thought, have kept on for above an hour, though I dare say it was not more than half that time; but I fully believed it was nearer three hours than two after we had left the fort when Joeboy suddenly dropped down flat; and, as I followed his example, he backed himself, walking quadrupedally on his hands and toes till he was able to subside close to where I lay on my face.

    Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer George Manville Fenn 1870

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